Childcare Ratios Debate

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Lord Hamilton of Epsom

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Childcare Ratios

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Queen’s Speech
Thursday 9th May 2013

(11 years, 2 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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My Lords, we are in consultation and we are listening. We are focused, as the noble Baroness said, on better-quality childcare with more qualified staff.

Lord Hamilton of Epsom Portrait Lord Hamilton of Epsom
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My Lords, is it not right that, if we are consulting, we should go through the consultation process and not pronounce until that is finished? Surely it is right in those circumstances that members of this coalition Government keep their views to themselves until that consultation has been completed.

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I am grateful for my noble friend’s question and confirm that we are considering the consultation.

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